All viable questions. All questions dreamologists hear all day long – and dreamers wonder about each night. The questions are confusing and can be hard to sort out, but the answer is pretty simple, actually…. once you understand the initial contradiction!

Dream Prophesy deals with the phenomenon of your dreams “playing out” or “coming true” in a way. To be certain, sometimes they do! President Abraham Lincoln dreamed of being assassinated. Countless people have dreamed about fighting with a loved one, only to find themselves in the middle of an epic disagreement hours later.

I read (and experience first hand) accounts of fascinating situations of dreams seemingly coming true. Although I KNOW that we control our own destiny, I also know that our dreams sometimes do come true – or at least come true in some fashion. If I didn’t believe this, would I have named my dream website Dream Prophesy?

Doubtful.

So, you may wonder, why do I countlessly (on this very dream website!) teach and preach that dreams don’t tell the future? That dreams don’t control our destiny?

Here’s the truth… the whole truth…. and nothing but the truth. We DO control our future, our dreams DO NOT. If we dream of losing something, we don’t necessarily have to lose our keys (or cellphone, papers, book…) on an upcoming day. If we dream of losing something, it’s because our mind is recognizing and warning us about something troublesome to it: We’re overwhelmed and the stage is being set for something to happen – such as losing something. When we dream about losing things, our mind is telling us to get our sh-– together!

If after having one of these dreams, we actually lose our car keys – we either didn’t heed the dreams warning or didn’t act upon it soon enough.

Here’s another scenario. I had a dream interpretation request submitted through the contact form about a year ago. The woman explained that she’d been dreaming that she kept fighting with her husband. The most recent dream involved divorce and she was greatly troubled by how “real” the dream felt to her.

She wanted to know if this dream meant big trouble for her marriage. I told her that it did if she didn’t try to fix what was obviously troubling her subconscious mind. After a few e-mails back and forth, she let the cat out of the bag…. and it was a mother in law!

Seems that her mother in law was causing a few simple little spats between her and her husband. Her resentment was building and building. Her dreams were letting her know that she needed to confront these feelings. Fortunately, she did just that by having a good, long talk with her husband (after baking him his favorite meal and even his favorite cookies…. I hear from such smart people.).

Future trouble was averted – and, as she put it, her husband told her that his mother was becoming a “thorn in” his side as well!

Now, if this dreamer had ignored her dreams – without trying to figure out the meaning behind them, she would not have made this meal, the cookies, or the first move. She’d have kept going along, quietly, letting the resentment and anger build… until… you guessed it – a huge fight took place.

Then, to a bystander, it would have looked like the dreams came true – that the dreams were prophetic. Not exactly. We are always in control.

Another scenario: If a young boy dreams that he has a car wreck, it could be his mind “processing” all the warnings his parents (and possibly even his girlfriend) give him about his speeding. His mind could be letting him know (while he’s asleep and less likely to protest the idea) that he needs to slow down. If he heeds this warning – the dream prophesy, if you will, and slows down, his risk of having a wreck will go down.

If he doesn’t heed the warning… well, speeding young boys often find themselves in fender benders!

Let’s go back to the White House with President Abraham Lincoln. He had a famous dream where he was assassinated. No duh? He was President during a time of total turmoil and upheaval. He was a highly controversial man during that time. We know him as nothing but a complete HERO, but some poor souls who didn’t know any better saw him as a villain.

He knew that. He saw the looks on some haters’ faces, he read the papers, and he (no doubt) even had a few threats. He knew the possibility and likelihood of being killed existed. As someone who adores President Abraham Lincoln (I collect everything I can get my hands on related to him in any way) – I sometimes get lost in this thought: What if he had “heeded” this dream and taken extra precaution. What if, for the time being – while so many people were still so out of sorts – he’d laid low, upped his protection, etc?

I love to think about what other impacts this man would have had on history.

Sadly, his dream did prove to be prophetic and he was murdered by a cowardly moron.

As with our cookie baking wife, our speedster, and our heroic president – their dreams let them know one thing: That the STAGE WAS SET for a particular thing to happen.

Comments

jenny saysMarch 22, 2011 at 06:52:00

well melissa did u tell your daughter about the dream that your sister had about loosing your legs if you did it may have just stayed in her mind somewhere causing her to dream about you loosing your legs again ??

paul saysNovember 6, 2011 at 09:10:00

I swear to all this is not a joke or dilution. I have tried to outlay all logical possibilities. I am not looking for acceptance or belief but more or less just some feedback. I have had many more experiences and would love to discuss them more on detail. Please do not write this off as just something crazy! I assure you it is not. And by doing so you only leave me as confused as I was before!

Concerned Wife saysJanuary 1, 2012 at 20:33:00

My husband shared a dream he had recently that was very strange. In the dream he heard the door ring (he was at our home) and went and answered the door and there was a person at the door that shared he would be taken ten years from now. He felt totally at peace after finding this out and the big thing that was reiterated to him was what to do with the time he had in those ten years and how he would prepare his life for that time to come. Then he woke up. It was very out of the ordinary for my husband to dream this and kind of was quite scary to hear about. Do you know what this might mean?

David saysJanuary 30, 2012 at 05:19:00

Hi im 18 years of age and for as long as i can remember i have been having dreams about something happening to me in reality and they usually end up happening just like the dream ppl say the same things im in the same place same lighting and everything does this mean anything? or what haha for instance i had a dream about me and my cousin driving to some place not to sure but it was a sunny day and we had stopped at the red light and we were talking.. couple of days later i was with him he was driving me to some place sunny day stop at some lights and had the same conversation in the dream everything was how it had looked in my dream.

katty saysFebruary 8, 2012 at 06:04:00

i get dream of my ex buddy we were togethr fr long bt instantly we broke apart bt nw i miss hm lot n he comes in my dream what wud be the reson fr that

dominique saysAugust 9, 2012 at 10:28:00

pls someone help!!!! for the last 9 years i been having all types of dreams but someof them come true, it could be me at a certain place in a certain senario and it will just hit me that i dreamed about this

Darius Reid saysAugust 15, 2012 at 18:49:00

This bothers me because the gurl im with now i dream about her years before we meet and now were together and as life goes on i wonder why have i seen this before of why has this happened before. for those who dont believe me My dreams has came true and this one dream above stands out , please pray for Darius Lammond reid , Tyrrance Pernell miller, Donta Reid and jaron Reid

megan saysAugust 25, 2014 at 19:07:00

Please im curious about this. I noticed a couple dreams came true but after a couple months after i had a dream. I had a dream of going to my fiance cousins house one time and seen white paper cit in to squares on dining table and in kitchen on the table were boxes of pizza. Well 4 months after we lost a family member and the day before the funeral we went to my fiance cousins house and it had the same lay out. I had journal this in a journal so i knew how many months in between but it was so weird. Plus i had another one of me at a bank opening a account a month ago and i just opened my first account on friday. Can someone tell me why i have dreams that come true. I felt like if i knew the family member was going die i could stop. Please help me

alonzo saysSeptember 6, 2014 at 19:00:00

i have a bunch of dreams that come true most of them happen a month later or two weeks later! its hard for me i just dont know whats wrong with me!! can you help in any way

Jarin saysNovember 28, 2014 at 20:22:00

I had a dream of a friend in a casket and in the dream it also should his pic too and two days later I find out that he past away from a heart attack but the casket was the same and the picture at the funeral home was the same what does that mean

Devin saysMarch 16, 2016 at 16:35:00

I dreamed I would go out with my crush and she asked me out 2 days ago